THE TOYOTA FT-86 concept’s video game doppelganger has been revealed today, sliding around a track alongside the fan-favourite AE86 Corolla in a new Gran Turismo 5 video.

The first motion shots of the FT-86 (albeit in a virtual realm), the new video offers a glimpse of Toyota’s stylish new concept from a number of new [...]

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NUMEROUS LAUNCH DATES for Gran Turismo 5 - rumoured, promised and proposed - have come and gone, but publisher Polyphony Digital announced at the Tokyo Game Show this week that a March 2010 launch in Japan is the real deal.

The March launch date puts the game six months out from the release of the [...]

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FOLLOWING YESTERDAY’S news that the upcoming XBOX 360 title Forza Motorsport 3 will feature the Bugatti Veyron and a handful of Holden and Ford V8 Supercars, today brings more exciting news for racing simulator fans.

Polyphony Digital, publishers of the legendary Gran Turismo series, has released five screenshots from the upcoming fifth instalment in the [...]

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THE LAUNCH OF PlayStation 3 racer Gran Turismo 5 is drawing nearer, although publisher Polyphony Digital remains tight-lipped on a specific date.

This week, Polyphony released a short video demonstrating the introduction of visible car damage into the Gran Turismo series, first reported back in May.

Visible car damage has been a long time coming in the [...]

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IT’S ALL ABOUT the racers at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in the US, with the hotly anticipated Turn 10 developed XBOX 360 racer Forza Motorsport 3 revealed yesterday, and now Gran Turismo 5 and Need For Speed: Shift trailers unveiled since.

Unfortunately, the GT5 presentation offered little more than the trailer and some details (you’d think [...]

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THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS hasn’t halted Citroen’s ambitious plans of launching a supercar, with the French manufacturer set to showcase its GTbyCITROEN concept car this weekend.

GTbyCITROEN will conduct a lap of honour before the start of the Nurburgring 24 Hour race, and will be on display at the stand of Gran Turismo developer Polyphony Digital [...]

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Perhaps the most frustrating element of most racing games but absent from the legendary Gran Turismo racing simulator for the Sony PlayStation, visible car damage is now expected to feature in the massively-delayed Gran Turismo 5.

Sure, there’s a perfectly good reason for it: without permission from manufacturers to show their cars getting visibly roughed up, [...]

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Rumour has it that the GTbyCitroen could be headed for an extremely limited 20-vehicle production run. The love child of Citroen and Polyphony Digital, the makers of the Sony Playstation 3 game Gran Turismo 5, was originally created as an in-game only special feature.

Word has it that PSA Peugeot Citroen’s new design director, Jean-Pierre Ploué, [...]

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Evening, readers.  Shane Rubans here, The Motor Report’s gaming correspondent.

Welcome to a new area of TMR, dedicated solely to news on car-related games for consoles, computers and in the arcades. Unfortunately though, rather than start this off with some uplifting info about the latest racer to hit the shelves at your local geek sanctuary, there’s [...]

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Nissan Motor Company’s marketing brainiacs have come up with a unique way to launch the 2008 Nissan GT-R. In a world first the 2008 Nissan GTR Godzilla will debut amongst other Nissan products ingeniously placed within the downloadable demo ‘Prologue’ version of the video game Gran Turismo 5,soon to be released in full format on [...]

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